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Ecorche

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E`cor`che´
n.1.(Fine Arts) A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.


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Chaim Soutine's Le Boeuf Ecorche sold for pounds 7,848,000, including buyer's premium, at Christie's in London, pounds 3m more than expected and a world record for the artist's work.
For most artists, the Ecorche was an academic set piece, merely a footnote to their career.
In "Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable," his version of the subject, Delacroix was able to synthesize the classical with the exotic, with his studies of ecorche (French for flayed bodies), with the example of English art, and with the work of Rubens--Delacroix owned Pieter Claesz Soutman's engravings of Rubens' paintings of hunts.
 
 
 
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